Rick Fawn
Senior Lecturer
Room: 139
Office Hours
Tel: 2957
Email: rick.fawn@st-andrews.ac.uk
Teaching
Regular teaching includes:
IR3104 The International Relations of Post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe [Junior Honours Undergraduates]
IR4525 Ethno-national Conflict in the Post-Communist Space [Senior Honours Undergradutes]
IR4544 War and Peace in the Caucasus [Senior Honours Undergradutes]
IR 5003 Regional Security [core module for MLitt in International Security]
IR5029 Peace and Conflict in Post-Communist Eurasia [principally for MECASS MLitt]
Contributions to subhonours and MLitt core modules.
Previously second-year convenor and M.Litt. and International Security Studies convenors.
Research
Keywords: International security; foreign policy decision-making; nationalism and politics of Central and Eastern Europe; NATO and EU enlargement; post-communist regional cooperation initiatives; intergovernemental organizations and conflict and peace in post-communist Europe.
Dr. Rick Fawn is a specialist on international security, with a geographic concentration on the former communist space. He has conducted research in and published on Central Europe, the Balkans, Russia, the Caucasus and Central Asia. He has also made numerous invited briefings and contributions to governments, NGOs and media, and given many papers and invited lectures and keynote addresses in the UK and overseas.
Dr. Rick Fawn has received research grants from various bodies, including the British Academy, the Nuffield Foundation; the Open Society Institute; the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Academy; The Foreign & Commonwealth Office; the Russell Trust; and the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland; and was a Sterring committee member r of the 8-University 4.7GBP ESRC/AHRC-funded Centre of Excellence called the Centre for Russian and Central and East European Studies (CRCEES).
Member of the Middle East, Caucasus and Central Asia Studies Institute; Centre for Peace and Conflist Studies; and the Centre for Russian, Soviet and Central and Eastern European Studies at the University of St Andrews.
Books
- Historical Dictionary of the Czech State (co-authored with Jiri Hochman; 2010), 428pp.
- Globalising the Regional, Regionalising the Global (Cambridge University Press, 2009; as editor), 261pp.
- The Iraq War: Causes and Consequences (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2006; co-edited with Raymond Hinnebusch), 357pp.
- Ideology and National Identity in Post-communist Foreign Policies (Routledge, 2003, as editor), 241pp.
- Global Responses to Terrorism: 9/11, Afghanistan and Beyond (Routledge, 2003; co-edited with Mary Buckley), 334 pp.
- Realignments in Russian Foreign Policy (Routledge, as editor, 2003).
- Russia after Communism (Routledge, 2002, as co-editor with Stephen White).
- The Changing Geopolitics of Eastern Europe (Routledge, 2001; as co-editor with Andrew Dawson).
- The Czech Republic: A Nation of Velvet (Routledge, 2000).
- International Society after the Cold War: Anarchy and Order Reconsidered (Macmillan, 1996, as co-editor with Jeremy Larkins), 302 pp.
Articles
Selected refereed journal articles:
Rick Fawn and Robert Nalbandov, 'The Difficulties of Knowing the Start of War in the Information Age: Russia, Georgia and the War over South Ossetia, August 2008’, European Security, Vol. 21, No. 1 (March 2012), pp. 57-91.
Rick Fawn; ‘“Central Europe”: On the Move?’ Perspectives: The Review of International Affairs Vol. 18, No. 2, 2010, pp. 79-94.
Rick Fawn; "“Bashing About Rights”: Russia and the “New” EU States on Human Rights and Democracy Promotion"; Europe-Asia Studies; Vol. 61, No. 10 (2009), pp. 1777-1803.
Rick Fawn; "“Regions” and Their Study: Where From, What For and Where To"; Review of International Studies; 35:2009, pp. 5-34.
Rick Fawn and Oliver Richmond; ‘De facto States in the Balkans: Shared Governance versus Ethnic Sovereignty in Republika Srpska and Kosovo’, Journal of Intervention and State-Building Vol. 3, No. 2 (June 2009), pp. 205-38.
Rick Fawn, ‘Visegrad: The Study and the Celebration’, Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 60, No. 4 (June 2008), pp. 681-92.
Rick Fawn, ‘The Kosovo – and Montenegro – Effect’, International Affairs, Vol. 84, No. 2 (March 2008), pp. 269-94.
Rick Fawn, ‘No Consensus with the Commonwealth, No Consensus within Itself: Canada and the Iraq War’, The Round Table, Vol. 97, No. 397 (August 2008), pp. 519-34.
Rick Fawn, ‘Battle Over the Box: International Election Observation Missions, Political Competition and Retrenchment in the Post-Soviet Space’, International Affairs Vol. 82, No. 6 (November 2006), pp. 1133-53.
Rick Fawn, ‘Enlarging (the Debate on) Central Europe’, Slavonica Vol. 13, No. 2 (2007), pp. 168-75 (review article).
Rick Fawn, ‘Alliance Behaviour, The Absentee Liberator, and the Influence of Soft Power’, Cambridge Review of International Affairs Vol. 19, No. 3 (September 2006), pp. 465-80.
Rick Fawn, ‘The Temelín Nuclear Power Plant and the European Union in Austrian-Czech Relations’, Communist and Post-Communist Studies Vol. 39, No. 1, 2006, pp. 101-19.
Rick Fawn, ‘From Universal Ideology to Nationalist Doctrines: Post-Communist Foreign Policies in Perspective’, Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics Vol. 19, No. 3, 2003, pp. 1-41.
Rick Fawn, ‘Reconstituting a National Identity: Ideologies in Czech Foreign Policy after the Split, Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics Vol. 19, No. 3, 2003, pp. 204-228.
Rick Fawn, ‘Russia’s Reluctant Retreat from the Caucasus: Abkhazia, Georgia and the US after September 11’, European Security Vol. 11, No. 4 (Winter 2002), pp. 131-50.
Rick Fawn, ‘The Media between Conflict and Consensus in Czech-Romani Affairs’, Journal of European Area Studies Vol. 10. No. 1 (May 2002), pp. 71-89.
Rick Fawn, ‘Correcting the Incorrigible?: Russia’s Relations with the West over Chechnya’, Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics Vol. 18, No. 1 (March 2002), pp. 1-19.
Rick Fawn, ‘Interests over Norms in Western Policy Towards the Caucasus: How Abkhazia is No One’s Kosovo’, European Security Vol. 10, No. 3 (Autumn 2001), pp. 84-108 (as co-author).
Rick Fawn, ‘Czech Attitudes towards the Roma: “Expecting More of Havel’s Country”?’, Europe-Asia Studies Vol. 48, No. 8 (December 2001), pp. 1193-1219.
Rick Fawn, ‘Death Penalty as Democratisation: Is the Council of Europe Hanging Itself?’ Democratization Vol. 8, No. 2 (Summer 2001), pp. 69–96.
Rick Fawn ‘The Elusive Defined? Visegrád Cooperation as the Contemporary Contours of Central Europe’, Geopolitics, Vol. 6, No. 1 (Summer 2001), pp. 47-68.
Rick Fawn, ‘Symbolism in the Diplomacy of Czech President Václav Havel’, East European Quarterly Vol. XXXIII, No. 1 (March 1999), pp. 1–19.
Book Chapters
Selected book chapters:
Rick Fawn, 'Regional Relations and Regional Security' in Sabrina P. Ramet (ed.), Central and Southeast European Politics since 1989 (Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 495-518.
Rick Fawn, ‘Democracy or Deficiency? Parties, Coalitions and Politics in the Czech Republic’, in Lars Johannsen and Karin Hilmer Pedersen (eds), Pathways: A Study of Six Post-Communist Countries (Aarhus, Denmark: University of Aarhus Press, 2009), pp. 117–37.
Rick Fawn, ‘Chechnya, the Council of Europe and the Advocacy of Human Rights in the Toughest of Cases’, in Douglas W. Blum (ed.), Russia and the World: Globalization, Identity and Security (Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008), pp. 259-286.
Rick Fawn, ‘Central and Eastern Europe: Independent Actors or Supplicant States?’, in Fawn and Hinnebusch (eds), The Iraq War: Causes and Consequences (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2006), pp. 83-101.
Rick Fawn, ‘The Iraq War of 2003: unfolding and unfinished’, in Fawn and Hinnebusch (eds), The Iraq War (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2006), pp. 1-18.
Rick Fawn, ‘The East’, in Hans Mouritzen and Anders Wivel (eds), The Geopolitics of Euro-Atlantic Integration (Routledge, 2005), pp. 128-48.
Rick Fawn, ‘From Ground Zero to the War in Afghanistan’, in Buckley and Fawn (eds), Global Responses to Terrorism (Routledge, 2003), pp. 11-24.
Rick Fawn, ‘Canada: Reluctant Moral Middle Power’, in Buckley and Fawn (eds), Global Responses to Terrorism (Routledge, 2003), pp. 79-89
Rick Fawn, ‘Perceptions in Central and Southeastern Europe’, in M. Buckley and S. Cummings (eds), Kosovo: Perceptions of War and its Aftermath (London and New York: Continuum, 2001), pp. 136-55.
Rick Fawn and James Mayall, ‘Recognition, Self-determination and Secession in Post-Cold War International Society’, in Fawn and Larkins (eds) International Society After the Cold War (Macmillan, 1996), pp. 193–219.
Rick Fawn, ‘Central Europe since the Revolutions of 1989: States, Economies and Culture in a Time of Flux’, in John Macmillan and Andrew Linklater (eds), Boundaries in Question: New Directions in International Relations (London and New York: Pinter, 1995), pp. 69-86.
Some other publications:
‘XIX or XXI century? Divergent perspectives and policies in Russian-British/Western security relations since the end of the Cold War,’ in Oрыт Bторй мировой войны для Европы XXI века (The Lessons of the Great Patriotic War for the 21th Century) (Moscow: Russian Academy of Sciences, 2001), pp. 118-31.
‘The EU’s newer human rights promoter – post-communist states and EU-Russian relations’, The EU-Russia Centre Review Issue Sixteen, November 2010, pp. 39-48.
‘The Velvet Revolution’, in J. Merriman and J. Winter (eds), Europe Since 1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of War and Reconstruction (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2006).
Administration
Previous administrative duties have included:
Director of Teaching, School of International Relations.
Deputy Head of School, School of International Relations.
Director, Centre for Russian and Central and East European Studies.
Warden, McIntosh Hall.
Academic Council.
School Study-Aborad Coordinator.
School Library Representative.
Dean's representative on academic hiring committees.
Grants
Research grants from various bodies, including the British Academy; the Foreign and Comomwealth; the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Academy; the Nuffield Foundation, the Russell Trust; Open Society Institute; and the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland; and a coordinator of the 8-University £4.7 million ESRC/AHRC-funded Centre of Excellence.
Editorial Positions
Editorial Board, Europe-Asia Studies
Associate Editor, Review of International Studies (2006-2010)
Editor and Associate Editor, Millennium: Journal of International Studies
Extensive refereeing of submissions for major journals and university presses.
Invited Talks, Lectures and Seminars
Numerous invited presentations, lectures, briefings and keynote addresses in the UK, USA, Europe and Asia, to universities, government agencies, NGOs, intergovernmental bodies and think tanks.
Media
Various invited media contributions to print media, radio and television, both UK and internationally.
PhD Supervision topics
Some successfully defended doctoral dissertations:
- 'Petroleum Geopolitics: A Framework of Analysis'
- ‘Opportunity, Ethnic Identity and Resources in Ethnic Mobilisation: The Cases of the Kurds in Iraq and the Abkhaz in Georgia’.
- ‘Constructing a Common EU Policy vis-à-vis the East: Managing Identity, Normativity, Morality and Interest in Talk’.
- '"Transitions after Transitions": Coloured Revolutions and Organised Crime in Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan'.
- ‘Power, Civil Society and Contentious Politics in Post-Communist Europe’
- 'Privatization in the Czech Republic: Six Case Studies'
- 'Explaining the Break-up of Czechoslovakia'
